Know your rights, where to get help and ways to help yourself
There are 52 resources
Discrimination and Your Rights
Filing a Complaint
How to Start the Complaint Process
(Separate Website)
If you feel you have been discriminated against in the areas of employment, housing or public accommodations, you can first contact the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and file a complaint. Depending on what is decided from this process, you may end up in court.
By: Colorado Civil Rights Division, State of Colorado
Protecting Your Civil Rights
(Separate Website)
If you believe that you have been discriminated against and want to file a complaint with the Federal Government, this is where you can find information to help.
By: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
How to File a Charge with the EEOC
(Separate Website)
If you believe you have been discriminated against by an employer, labor union or employment agency when applying for a job or while on the job because of your race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability, you may have grounds to file a charge of discrimination.
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Protecting Your Rights
(Separate Website)
The ACLU works to protect First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state; rights to equal protection and treatment under the law - regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin, rights to due process and rights to privacy.
By: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Employment Discrimination
(Separate Website)
Chapter 9 explains the various employment laws and how they protect individuals from discrimination; It also explains what you can do if you feel discriminated against.
By: Colorado Bar Association - Senior Law Handbook
What are the Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination?
(Separate Website)
Information on federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin or disability.
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Age Discrimination at Work
(Separate Website)
This resource will help answer your questions about age discrimination, plus has information about the Age Discrimination (ADEA) in Employment Act; what the ADEA forbids: what to do; explains that you need to do research; and has links to other resources.
By: AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)
What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?
(Separate Website)
Your rights concerning discrimination in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. (This is a very legal-like website, harder to understand.)
By: US Department of Labor
Access to Fair Housing
(Separate Website)
Decent, safe, affordable housing is often barred to people with mental disabilities because of too little low-income housing and too much discrimination against those who want to live in it. This resource helps address both issues.
By: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Federal Protections Against National Origins Discrimination
(Separate Website)
This brochure contains information about federal laws that prohibit national origin discrimination, how the Civil Rights Division can help and how you can file a complaint.
By: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Know Your Rights
(Separate Website)
If government agents question you, it is important to understand your rights. You should be careful in the way you speak when approached by the police, FBI or DHS. If you give answers, they can be used against you in a criminal, immigration, or civil case.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Office of Dispute Resolution
(Separate Website)
If you have a legal dispute, the Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) may be able to help. This link will take you to their homepage. The ODR exists to establish and make available dispute resolution programs and services within the Colorado Judicial Branch.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Talk with a Lawyer on Law Line 9
An advice line providing brief direction on legal problems.
By: Channel 9 News in Denver, Colorado
What kinds of discrimination are against the law in Colorado?
(Separate Website)
Are you being treated differently at work? If so, is it because of your race, sex, age, disability, national origin or religion? Wondering what other kinds of discrimination are illegal? Get the facts on workplace discrimination here. 12 kinds of discrimination are explained.
By: Workplace Fairness
What To Do If You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration
(Separate Website)
Immigrants who are arrested or detained by Immigration have certain rights. These rights change, however, if you are arrested or detained at the border or in an airport. Use this resource to learn what you should do in such cases.
By: National Immigration Law Center
A Guide to Disability Rights Law
(Separate Website)
This document has information about the following: Americans with Disabilities Act, Telecommunications Act, Fair Housing Act, Air Carrier Access Act, Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act, National Voter Registration Act, Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Rehabilitation Act, Architectural Barriers Act and other sources of disability rights information.
By: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
A Resource for Disability Rights and Elder Law Information
(Separate Website)
The Legal Center uses the legal system to protect and promote individual rights through direct legal representation, advocacy, education and legislative analysis.
By: The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People
ADA Mediation Program
(Separate Website)
Program helps with ADA disputes through informal methods.
Americans with Disabilities Act Information
(Separate Website)
Information on a wide variety of topics, including the American with Disabilities Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This website also has forms you can use to file a complaint of discrimination on the basis of disability.
By: U.S. Department of Justice
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Applying for Aid to the Needy Disabled (AND)
(Separate Website)
How to apply for AND, what information you need to take when you apply, where you need to go to apply, and more information about services and programs for the disabled.
By: Colorado Department of Human Services
Applying for disability benefits for your child
(Separate Website)
These factsheets tell you what you should know when you apply for SSI disability benefits for your child and what information and documents for your child that you will need for the disability interview.
By: Social Security Administration
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Employment Protection for People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
This resource covers many topics including: laws regarding employment and people with disabilities; filing a charge of discrimination (how to prepare, where to file, how to file) and an Internet resource list. (You must have Adobe Reader on your computer. Go to www.adobe.com, click on the yellow icon "Get Adobe Reader" and download the program.)
By: The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People
Employment Support for People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
Promotes the employment of people receiving Social Security who are with disabilities by designing policies that make work pay; promoting research and program innovation; educating the public about programs and services that ease entry into the workforce; and partnering with other public and private groups to remove employment barriers for people with disabilities.
By: Social Security Online
Fair Housing Resources for the Disabled
This list of resources features links to information about the Fair Housing Act, resources for finding housing, and organizations that assist people with disabilities with housing issues.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Denver, CO
Federal Employment of People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
This site provides help for Americans, with and without disabilities, to better understand how to hire and retain persons with disabilities. The site is for applicants and employees with disabilities, Federal managers and supervisors, and human resources professionals
By: Office of Personnel Management
Finding an Advocate
This is a list of advocate groups that can assist people with disabilities with legal issues. It includes contact information, as well as a brief summary of the kinds of issues each organization handles.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Denver, CO
Health insurance for Seniors and people with disabilities
(Separate Website)
Medicare is a health insurance program for people 65 years of age and older, some disabled people under 65 years of age, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure treated with dialysis or a transplant).
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Help with Securing Funding for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices through Medicare, State Medical Assistance Programs or Private Insurance
(Separate Website)
If you need access to technology that helps with communication barriers, this information is designed to walk you through the funding process, and provide you with the information and forms you need to start the process. (CLS does not support one particular supplier of product, only help facilitate the process of fair access to help and equipment.)
By: Funding Department, DynaVox
Information on health insurance for Seniors and people with disabilities
(Separate Website)
Medicare, what it covers, how to enroll and more.
By: Medicare Rights Center
Job Accomodations for People with Mental Illness
By: Project T.R.A.I.N. - Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Marriage and Public Benefits
(Separate Website)
When a person who receives public benefits marries, his or her benefits can change or stop, depending on the person?s age and which benefits he or she is receiving, as well as other factors. This section will outline some effects that marriage can have on some specific public benefit programs.
By: Colorado Bar Association - Senior Law Handbook
Medicaid Buy-In for Working People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
Information about the option to provide Medicaid to working people with disabilities whose earnings are too high for them to qualify.
By: The Work Site
Office of Dispute Resolution
(Separate Website)
If you have a legal dispute, the Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) may be able to help. This link will take you to their homepage. The ODR exists to establish and make available dispute resolution programs and services within the Colorado Judicial Branch.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Rights of Parents with Students who have Special Needs
(Separate Website)
Provides detailed information about a parent?s right to request a due process hearing and provides model request forms. (You must have Adobe Reader on your computer. Go to www.adobe.com, click on the yellow icon "Get Adobe Reader" and download the program to your computer.
By: Council for Disability Rights
Social Security Benefits and Representative Payee
If Social Security determines you cannot manage your benefits on your own due to mental or physical disabilities, they will choose someone else and designate them "representative payee". Read more about that here.
By: Colorado Legal Services
Talk with a Lawyer on Law Line 9
An advice line providing brief direction on legal problems.
By: Channel 9 News in Denver, Colorado
Colorado's identification requirements for proof of Age, Identity and Lawful Presence
(Separate Website)
To be issued a Colorado Driver's License or Identification Card, you must prove the following elements: your full legal name, identity, age, and lawful presence in the United States. This Identification Requirements Chart shows the documents that you may use to prove each of these elements.
Low income, disabled, homeless, and elderly citizens must document their identity and citizenship in order to obtain health care and other public benefits.
By: Colorado Department of Revenue
Do you understand how the courts work?
(Separate Website)
Navigating the Colorado court system can be confusing. To understand how Colorado courts work watch this short presentation.
By: Colorado Legal Services
Filing a Complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division
(Separate Website)
Contact this agency for help if you feel you have been discriminated against in the areas of employment, housing, public accomodations and/or advertising in the state of Colorado.
By: State of Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
Finding an Advocate
This is a list of advocate groups that can assist people with disabilities with legal issues. It includes contact information, as well as a brief summary of the kinds of issues each organization handles.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Denver, CO
How to File a Charge with the EEOC
(Separate Website)
If you believe you have been discriminated against by an employer, labor union or employment agency when applying for a job or while on the job because of your race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability, you may have grounds to file a charge of discrimination.
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
How to seal a court record The court can seal police contact records, arrest records, indictments, summons and complaint, court files, or any other record held by a criminal justice agency about the incident, click the title to learn more.
By: Colorado Legal Services
Know Your Rights! What to do if questioned by Police, FBI, Customs Agents or Immigration Officers.
(Separate Website)
This resource addresses an individual's rights depending on age, situation, location and citizenship status, read the pamphlet to find out more.
By: National Lawyers Guild
Read this in:
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Chinese / 中文
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Farsi / فارسی
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Punjabi / ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
,
Spanish / Español
Office of Dispute Resolution
(Separate Website)
If you have a legal dispute, the Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) may be able to help. This link will take you to their homepage. The ODR exists to establish and make available dispute resolution programs and services within the Colorado Judicial Branch.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Sealing a Criminal Conviction Record
(Separate Website)
Instructions and forms necessary to Petition the Court to Seal a Criminal Conviction for offenses involving controlled substances.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Service of Process Video
(Separate Website)
This informative video will teach you about Service of Process.
What kinds of discrimination are against the law in Colorado?
(Separate Website)
Are you being treated differently at work? If so, is it because of your race, sex, age, disability, national origin or religion? Wondering what other kinds of discrimination are illegal? Get the facts on workplace discrimination here. 12 kinds of discrimination are explained.
By: Workplace Fairness
What To Do If You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration
(Separate Website)
Immigrants who are arrested or detained by Immigration have certain rights. These rights change, however, if you are arrested or detained at the border or in an airport. Use this resource to learn what you should do in such cases.
By: National Immigration Law Center
What to do If You Are Stopped by the Police
(Separate Website)
Read through this document to see what your rights are if you are in the above situation. Print a reminder card (Bust Card) to carry in your wallet.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
A Guide to Disability Rights Law
(Separate Website)
This document has information about the following: Americans with Disabilities Act, Telecommunications Act, Fair Housing Act, Air Carrier Access Act, Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act, National Voter Registration Act, Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Rehabilitation Act, Architectural Barriers Act and other sources of disability rights information.
By: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
A Resource for Disability Rights and Elder Law Information
(Separate Website)
The Legal Center uses the legal system to protect and promote individual rights through direct legal representation, advocacy, education and legislative analysis.
By: The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People
Americans with Disabilities Act Information
(Separate Website)
Information on a wide variety of topics, including the American with Disabilities Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This website also has forms you can use to file a complaint of discrimination on the basis of disability.
By: U.S. Department of Justice
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
ADA Mediation Program
(Separate Website)
Program helps with ADA disputes through informal methods.
What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?
(Separate Website)
Your rights concerning discrimination in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. (This is a very legal-like website, harder to understand.)
By: US Department of Labor
How to File a Charge with the EEOC
(Separate Website)
If you believe you have been discriminated against by an employer, labor union or employment agency when applying for a job or while on the job because of your race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability, you may have grounds to file a charge of discrimination.
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Job Accomodations for People with Mental Illness
By: Project T.R.A.I.N. - Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Rights of Parents with Students who have Special Needs
(Separate Website)
Provides detailed information about a parent?s right to request a due process hearing and provides model request forms. (You must have Adobe Reader on your computer. Go to www.adobe.com, click on the yellow icon "Get Adobe Reader" and download the program to your computer.
By: Council for Disability Rights
Applying for Aid to the Needy Disabled (AND)
(Separate Website)
How to apply for AND, what information you need to take when you apply, where you need to go to apply, and more information about services and programs for the disabled.
By: Colorado Department of Human Services
Health insurance for Seniors and people with disabilities
(Separate Website)
Medicare is a health insurance program for people 65 years of age and older, some disabled people under 65 years of age, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure treated with dialysis or a transplant).
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Information on health insurance for Seniors and people with disabilities
(Separate Website)
Medicare, what it covers, how to enroll and more.
By: Medicare Rights Center
Medicaid Buy-In for Working People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
Information about the option to provide Medicaid to working people with disabilities whose earnings are too high for them to qualify.
By: The Work Site
Help with Securing Funding for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices through Medicare, State Medical Assistance Programs or Private Insurance
(Separate Website)
If you need access to technology that helps with communication barriers, this information is designed to walk you through the funding process, and provide you with the information and forms you need to start the process. (CLS does not support one particular supplier of product, only help facilitate the process of fair access to help and equipment.)
By: Funding Department, DynaVox
Marriage and Public Benefits
(Separate Website)
When a person who receives public benefits marries, his or her benefits can change or stop, depending on the person?s age and which benefits he or she is receiving, as well as other factors. This section will outline some effects that marriage can have on some specific public benefit programs.
By: Colorado Bar Association - Senior Law Handbook
Applying for disability benefits for your child
(Separate Website)
These factsheets tell you what you should know when you apply for SSI disability benefits for your child and what information and documents for your child that you will need for the disability interview.
By: Social Security Administration
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Social Security Benefits and Representative Payee
If Social Security determines you cannot manage your benefits on your own due to mental or physical disabilities, they will choose someone else and designate them "representative payee". Read more about that here.
By: Colorado Legal Services
Employment Protection for People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
This resource covers many topics including: laws regarding employment and people with disabilities; filing a charge of discrimination (how to prepare, where to file, how to file) and an Internet resource list. (You must have Adobe Reader on your computer. Go to www.adobe.com, click on the yellow icon "Get Adobe Reader" and download the program.)
By: The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People
Employment Support for People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
Promotes the employment of people receiving Social Security who are with disabilities by designing policies that make work pay; promoting research and program innovation; educating the public about programs and services that ease entry into the workforce; and partnering with other public and private groups to remove employment barriers for people with disabilities.
By: Social Security Online
Federal Employment of People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
This site provides help for Americans, with and without disabilities, to better understand how to hire and retain persons with disabilities. The site is for applicants and employees with disabilities, Federal managers and supervisors, and human resources professionals
By: Office of Personnel Management
What are the Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination?
(Separate Website)
Information on federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin or disability.
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Access to Fair Housing
(Separate Website)
Decent, safe, affordable housing is often barred to people with mental disabilities because of too little low-income housing and too much discrimination against those who want to live in it. This resource helps address both issues.
By: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Age Discrimination at Work
(Separate Website)
This resource will help answer your questions about age discrimination, plus has information about the Age Discrimination (ADEA) in Employment Act; what the ADEA forbids: what to do; explains that you need to do research; and has links to other resources.
By: AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)
Employment Discrimination
(Separate Website)
Chapter 9 explains the various employment laws and how they protect individuals from discrimination; It also explains what you can do if you feel discriminated against.
By: Colorado Bar Association - Senior Law Handbook
Federal Protections Against National Origins Discrimination
(Separate Website)
This brochure contains information about federal laws that prohibit national origin discrimination, how the Civil Rights Division can help and how you can file a complaint.
By: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
How to Start the Complaint Process
(Separate Website)
If you feel you have been discriminated against in the areas of employment, housing or public accommodations, you can first contact the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and file a complaint. Depending on what is decided from this process, you may end up in court.
By: Colorado Civil Rights Division, State of Colorado
Know Your Rights
(Separate Website)
If government agents question you, it is important to understand your rights. You should be careful in the way you speak when approached by the police, FBI or DHS. If you give answers, they can be used against you in a criminal, immigration, or civil case.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Office of Dispute Resolution
(Separate Website)
If you have a legal dispute, the Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) may be able to help. This link will take you to their homepage. The ODR exists to establish and make available dispute resolution programs and services within the Colorado Judicial Branch.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Protecting Your Civil Rights
(Separate Website)
If you believe that you have been discriminated against and want to file a complaint with the Federal Government, this is where you can find information to help.
By: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Protecting Your Rights
(Separate Website)
The ACLU works to protect First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state; rights to equal protection and treatment under the law - regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin, rights to due process and rights to privacy.
By: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Talk with a Lawyer on Law Line 9
An advice line providing brief direction on legal problems.
By: Channel 9 News in Denver, Colorado
What kinds of discrimination are against the law in Colorado?
(Separate Website)
Are you being treated differently at work? If so, is it because of your race, sex, age, disability, national origin or religion? Wondering what other kinds of discrimination are illegal? Get the facts on workplace discrimination here. 12 kinds of discrimination are explained.
By: Workplace Fairness
What To Do If You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration
(Separate Website)
Immigrants who are arrested or detained by Immigration have certain rights. These rights change, however, if you are arrested or detained at the border or in an airport. Use this resource to learn what you should do in such cases.
By: National Immigration Law Center
Fair Housing Resources for the Disabled
This list of resources features links to information about the Fair Housing Act, resources for finding housing, and organizations that assist people with disabilities with housing issues.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Denver, CO
Finding an Advocate
This is a list of advocate groups that can assist people with disabilities with legal issues. It includes contact information, as well as a brief summary of the kinds of issues each organization handles.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Denver, CO
Office of Dispute Resolution
(Separate Website)
If you have a legal dispute, the Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) may be able to help. This link will take you to their homepage. The ODR exists to establish and make available dispute resolution programs and services within the Colorado Judicial Branch.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Talk with a Lawyer on Law Line 9
An advice line providing brief direction on legal problems.
By: Channel 9 News in Denver, Colorado
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